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How does one person get to own so many beautiful fantastic cars in one life time ? In the midwest I don't believe half of these existed to be purchased. Everyday must have been a holiday for a fanatic who lived and breathed great transportation. Please don't show any more. I'm depressed as it is. Question # 2, how did you afford this addiction ? I would never have parted with half of them.
I look back at some of the cars I passed on. The remaining examples may have never have been found. I guess someone above sorts them out for us.
By the way, envy is not even close. Five decades later we have to pick some remains and build them the way they began life. The good part, ..... were still in the game !! Thanks for sharing.
Wow some nice rides, you got good taste!
Often wish I was a teen not the kid on the stingray bugging the older guys on the block to see their rides in the 70s
Member here owned the silver bullit for a number of yrs in the 70s interesting story. Sure you know about that one if youre a Hemi guy
Google chevelles.com silver bullit.
one guy on our street never had less than 5 AMX at one time, his Dad had a superbird, another neighbor 2 doors down always drove 70 purple r/t challengers would rip the 383 out the first day stick a 318 in it and commute 80 mi a day. Good times back then!
Heck the babysitter drove a 69 SS396 Chevelle!
Yes, I know the story of the Silver Bullit, a Michigan legend.
Nearly every young person drove a car like these back in the day.
How does one person get to own so many beautiful fantastic cars in one life time ? In the midwest I don't believe half of these existed to be purchased. Everyday must have been a holiday for a fanatic who lived and breathed great transportation. Please don't show any more. I'm depressed as it is. Question # 2, how did you afford this addiction ? I would never have parted with half of them.
I look back at some of the cars I passed on. The remaining examples may have never have been found. I guess someone above sorts them out for us.
By the way, envy is not even close. Five decades later we have to pick some remains and build them the way they began life. The good part, ..... were still in the game !! Thanks for sharing.
A lot of these cars I bought to flip and only had for a short time. Others I owned for up to 10 years. I started buying Corvettes and other muscle car in 1969 but really amped it up in the mid 70's. I had the vision to identify a good deal and made a lot of money for the time on these cars. Many times I took trades that maximized my total deal. As an example I paid $2800 for the 61, took a 340 h.p. intake off of it (was not correct for the car) and sold the car for $4400. two weeks later. I had a 1970 LS6 Chevelle SS that I paid $1100 for it and gave it and $1500 for the Griffith and sold the Griffith for $6500. I always had a bunch of hipo cars sitting around the house and I found out years later that the local police had been watching me thinking I must be a drug dealer because they thought I had too much money for the work I did.
68hemi, tell us more about that '63 Avanti
Are the headlights round or square?
What engine with supercharger?
The headlights on a 63 are round, square on a 64 and the Avanti IIs.
Avanti's all had the 289 Studebaker/Packard engine. They had two options the supercharged engine or dual quads. The Avanti IIs used a GM drive train.
Mine was a rare care with a 4 speed, PW and supercharger.
The headlights on a 63 are round, square on a 64 and the Avanti IIs.
Avanti's all had the 289 Studebaker/Packard engine. They had two options the supercharged engine or dual quads. The Avanti IIs used a GM drive train.
Mine was a rare care with a 4 speed, PW and supercharger.
I had a similar history. I wanted one of every year, just could not afford more than one at a time. I agreed about the silver blue 58. GREAT car with rare options. Tell me about the 57 AIR BOX? Do you remember the vin? I might know where it is.
I had a similar history. I wanted one of every year, just could not afford more than one at a time. I agreed about the silver blue 58. GREAT car with rare options. Tell me about the 57 AIR BOX? Do you remember the vin? I might know where it is.
Jim,
You probably don't recognize me by my screen name but I am Darryl Dayton. You know the car. Jerry Gendreau and I bought and brought that car to the NCRS awareness at the Rockford NCRS meet in about 1976/77? where Mike Hunt looked the car over. The last that I knew of where I THINK the car was, was in Ohio with a collector and I believe he is the guy that invented/sold radar unit for law enforcement AND radar detectors. You likely know the V.I.N. if not I will look it up for you. You do know that Kim Madsen passed away a few years ago, correct?
Jim,
You probably don't recognize me by my screen name but I am Darryl Dayton. You know the car. Jerry Gendreau and I bought and brought that car to the NCRS awareness at the Rockford NCRS meet in about 1976/77? where Mike Hunt looked the car over. The last that I knew of where I THINK the car was, was in Ohio with a collector and I believe he is the guy that invented/sold radar unit for law enforcement AND radar detectors. You likely know the V.I.N. if not I will look it up for you. You do know that Kim Madsen passed away a few years ago, correct?
Hello Darryl,
Yes, you and I have talked and your history is interesting. Your car is with the same collector. I and others inspected it in 2009 at his home.
Yes Kim Madsen's passing was too early for such a nice hard working Corvette enthusiast. I placed his 59 Steve Elfenbein Corvette New Jersey race car with two collectors. The car is in Southern California and been vintaged raced since 2013.
Last edited by jimgessner; 07-30-2017 at 06:47 AM.
Really enjoyed your history walk through of all those cars you had at one time! Sounds like some of them were in and out of your hands in a matter of days. That factory Paxton supercharged Avanti was and is a rare, neat car. Thought you would enjoy seeing a Studebaker Lark (body style very similar to a Plymouth Valiant), similarly equipped with that supercharger at the drag strip. A light car with 4.10:1 gears ripping a 12.68 time was no slouch.
I have a rich friend that imported many nice Corvettes to our area. Unfortunately buyers from out of the area grabbed them as fast as he could put them up for sale. In particular a nice 54 and a C-2 big tank coupe that really impressed me. Four thousand dollars and it could have been in my drive. Unfortunately or maybe fortunate for me the later 70s was college funding planning. We built and sold houses to supplement the expenses. When I did find a fiberglass bargain it was later sold for the above cause. Retirement was a new perspective at 55. Now I buy and retain, seven at last count. Just a great hobby and met many interesting people with the same disease. The " wild goose chases " my wife calls them are still adventurous even though most don't produce buying results. Just peering into the past with old memories makes the trips pleasureable. Should be taking notes for a best seller.
Response to a couple of posts here.
Thanks for sharing the video. I love to see and grandma car grocery getter with relatively small tires smoking a legendary Yenko car.
Regarding the ex-wife comment, I tell people I am 3 times stupider than most people.
I am glad you guys are enjoying the pictures, I just wish I had pictures of all of the cars I have owned.
I often say when people comment about these old cars being sold for such low prices back in the day that they were just cars then. They were to most people but I had a different vision of them even then.
I made money on them by simply recognizing a good deal and knowing how to market/advertise them. The great majority of them were long before the Internet and were advertised/marketed through Hemming, the Chicago Tribune and the Rockford paper when I lived in a couple of small towns in N.W. Illinois so due to the lag time of ads in Hemming print I usually had these cars for a month or more. I also had a high school friend that was my partner on many of these old cars. We were making money but it was also about the fun of owning the cars and the chase. He was/is a major gearhead like me. I had a good working relationship with my bank and would buy these cars on a 90 day opened note, pay them off when sold and buy another. Sometimes I had as many as 5 cars sitting around the house.
I just sold the 66 Hemi Coronet two weeks ago.
They made many 66 Hemi Coronets but there are factory records for how many made in each model and what trans they had. The V.I.N. will tell you the model and engine. There were four Coronet models in 1966. A Base with no exterior trim, rubber floor mat and basic cloth and vinyl seats, a Deluxe, a 440 and a 500 as you went up in models you got more trim and better interiors. In the base model they made 34 cars with the Hemi, 23 with auto trans and 11 with 4 speeds, so my car was one of eleven built. When you ordered a Hemi with a 4 speed you got the 9 3/4" Dana rear end with 3.54 gears. The auto came with a 8 3/4" rear end with 3.23 gears. All came with the police & taxi suspension and brakes which marketing later called Hemi suspension and brakes. My car was bought new to race and was never titled until I bought it. It had 3661 original miles on it 1/4 mile at a time.
My favorite 57. Sure looks like he is having fun. Kudos to the photographer .
Reviving an old thread I started a few months back.
I started a list of some of the old special cars/toys I have owned. My memory is not what it used to be and can only remember about 1/2 of them. Seems like every week or so I see something else online and think "oh yeah, I had one of those too"
Here is the list that I keep adding to as I remember others. I have been trying to put them in chronological order from oldest model year forward.
1936 Dodge pick up 283 street rod
1956 Cadillac 2x4 engine
1957 Corvette airbox car
1957 Corvette 2x4
1958 Corvette 2x4
1958 Corvette 290 FI 4 speed, PW, PT, hardtop silver blue/ inca silver, silver blue interior and soft top
1961 Corvette two top
1962 Impala SS Anniversary gold
1963 Impala SS 409 4 speed
1963 Buick Wildcat
1963 Avanti 289 Supercharged PS, PDB, PW
1964 Impala SS 409, auto, A/C, PS, PB, PW, tilt, AM/FM stereo
1964 Corvette convertible, auto , A/C
1964 Falcon Futura convertible, 260 4 bbl, 4 speed buckets console
1965 Plymouth Belvidere
1965 Plymouth Valiant Signet 2 dr. ht. 273, A/C, buckets console
1965 Impala SS 396 convertible
1965 Griffith 289 Hipo
1966 Hemi Coronet BASE 2dr sedan 4 speed 1 of 11 made
1966 Charger 383
1966 Charger 523, 4 speed OD, PS, PB, PW, A/C, 3.54 Dana
1965 Corvette convertible, 4 speed, 365 h.p.
1965 Corvette coupe, auto, A/C, PS, PB, PW
1966 Corvette coupe 327/350, 4 speed, A/C, PS, PB, PW, SE, KO, leather
1966 Corvette coupe 427/390, TI, A/C, PS, PB, PW, teak/tele, SE, KO Mossport green
1966 Mustang GT, 289 hipo, ralley pack, 4 speed, black on black
1966 GTO
1966 Mustang 4 speed built 289
1967 Coronet 500
1967 Coronet R/T
1967 GTX convertible
1968 Cougar
1968 Charger
1968 Hemi Charger R/T loaded
1968 Dart GTS 3.91
1968 GTX
1968 Hemi GTX
1968 Corvette convertible 427/390 4 speed
1968 Corvette 427/390 4 speed
1969 Pontiac Grand Prix 428 Black/black
1969 AMX 390 4 speed, A/C, 3.54
1969 Corvette 427/435 4 speed
1969 Charger R/T/SE 4 speed 3.54
1969 GTX convertible 4 speed
1969 Roadrunner 4 speed 3.91
1969 A12, 440 six pack Super Bee 4 speed
1970 Boss 302, 4 speed, DragPac, widow slats
1970 Cuda 440 Black/black
1970 Challenger 340 A66
1970 Charger R/T
1970 Javelin SST 360 Go Package
1970/71? GTO Judge 455 Ram Air IV 4 speed convertible 1 of 17?
1970 Chevelle SS LS6
1970 Matador 360 Go Pac
1970 Z28 4 speed M22
1971 BMW Bavaria 4 speed
1971 Corvette loaded
1972 Grand Torino
1972 H.D. Sportster chopper
1972 Jeep 4x4 Renegade, 304, 4 bbl, 4 speed. Levis
1973 Yamaha RD 350
1973 Polara 2 dr ht 400 loaded car
1973 Corvette loaded
1974 Dart Sport loaded
1974 Charger SE loaded
1974 El Camino
1974 El Camino SS 454
1975 Chevy van custom ******* wagin
1976 Cadillac convertible
1978 Dodge Little Red Express Truck
1978 Lincoln Town Car 2 dr. coupe 460
1978 Corvette L82
1979 Chrysler Cordoba 400, loaded, Black, tan leather
1981 H.D. Sturgis Low Rider
1981 Fiat spider convertible
1985 Corvette 4+3 trans
1986 Corvette 4+3 trans
1987 Jeep Wrangler 1 ton Chevy axles, trans, 350 FI, Whipple supercharger, hardtop
2011 Polaris RZR 900
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